[1.] Shaping a triracial society: The social development of colonial America --
The image of the Indian in the Southern colonial mind --
The framing of government in Pennsylvania: ideas in contact with reality --
Slaves and slaveowners in colonial Philadelphia --
The failure of female factory labor in colonial Boston --
The transformation of urban politics, 1700-1764 --
[2.] Reshaping society in the revolutionary era: Urban wealth and poverty in prerrevolutionary America --
Social change and the growth of prerrevolutionary urban radicalism --
Artisans and politics in eighteenth-century Philadelphia --
Thomas Peters: millwright, soldier, and deliverer --
Forging freedom: the emancipation experience in the northern seaports, 1775-1820 --
"To arise out of the dust": Absalom Jones and the African Church of Philadelphia, 1785-95.